St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-03

Gov. Oglesby is an old man, an old
time politician, a statesman of the
popular order. In his youth he was
a fiery orator, but always on the
winning side. In the war he was
A Gallant Soldier.
On his return to the people of his
state he received the highest honor in
their power to confer. He is the kind
of man, more or less bald-headed, with
silver-bowed spectacles and clean shaven
face, who dresses in summer in nam
keen coat, vest and trousers, and sits in
the calm seclusion of his official palace
as accessible to Tom, Dick and Harry as
to Thomas, Richard and Henry. No
divinity hedges about that particular
king. His presence is as accessible to
the humblest as to the highest. He has
keen sense of duty and also lively
appreciation of the popular side of
question. But he is an old man. He
has no political future. His popular
race is nearly ended, and when the
term of his present Office shall expire,
with his wife he will retire to their farm
to spend in calm contemplation of the
past
The Serene Enjoyment
of the present, and a roseate hopefulness
for the future the remainder of his
earthly days. That he desires the last
significant act of his official
life to be the signing of seven
death warrants who can believe?
That as the last significant act of his
official life it would please him to have
an act of mercy, who can doubt? AS
was well said by a near and intimate
friend of the governor to-day: 'From
this hour all effort concerning the anar-
chists and their fate will be made on
one side, namely, in their behalf, and it
would be indelicate were any effort to
be made on the other hand" Unfortu-
nately for the governor in this respect
Parsons, the brainy American, Lingg,
the cheeky German, Engle and Fischer
join in demanding liberty or the execu-
ton of their sentence. They not only
refuse to beg for mercy but they laugh
away with magnificent contempt the
bare suggestion that somebody has
asked Communication of their sentence.
They mock the interested interference
of clergymen with sneers, and they ha,
ha, down the avenues of Chicago the
well meant proposition that they sign
formal petition for commutation.
Louis Lingg, with an impertinence born
of his breeding, ventures to thrust a
sneer at the governor, whom he terms
the mere tool of the mOnOpolists.
Registered His Letter
in order that his impertinence may find
certain delivery into the governors
hands. He, too, demanded liberty or
death, and his demand will be ac-
ceded to. Lingg is young man who
came from Germany but short time
previous to the Haymarket riot. He is
unable to speak the language of the
country, and, of course, is not citizen.
Within few months of his arrival in
Chicago, being somewhat of an expert
from practice among European dyna-
miters, he began to manufacture bombs
here and to teach his fellow anarchists
how to use them to promote a social
revolution, which he advocated as neces-
Sary. A comparison of the fragments
of the bomb that was thrown at the
Haymarket with bombs found at
Lingg's quarters furnished conclusive
proof that he made the one with which
the murders were committed. In his
letter to the governor he says that
His Only Crime
was in ''calling on the oppressed masses"
''to oppose the force of their oppressors
with force" The law officers and the
police are the "oppressOrs" designated
by Lingg, and he made bomb which
he instructed another man how to
throw at them with murderous effect.
That is how he called on the oppressed
to "Oppose force with force" What
tender-hearted sophist will argue that
this confessed crime was mere "pO-
litical offense," for which the offended
should not be punished with death?
George Engel, to whom no mercy of any
sort or kind has been presented, offered
or suggested ventures in his letter to
the governor not only an enhancement
of the impertinence found in Lingg'S,
but protests in advance against COM
mutation of sentence and gives his
ground for such protest; while Fischer
in his screed against the barbarism of
the seventeenth century, and his thesis
concerning the cloud upon the social
armament, ventures to lecture the gov
ernor on his
Lack of Appreciation
of the evils that are rampant in the pres
ent institution of society which allows
one portion of the human race to build
ers; to enslave their fellow men. A
singular coincidence is noticed by men
with memories between Carter Harri-
sons expressions in the interview | had
with him a year OF so ago and the letter
of Fischer. Said Carter Harrison, on
that OCCASION: 1.-The blood of the mar
tyrS was the seed of the church, and the
aster and wide spread trouble and dis
satisfaction among the laboring classes"
While Fischer says: "Society may
hang a number of disciples of progress
who have disinterestedly served the
cause of the sons of toll, which is the
cause of humanity, but their blood will
work miracles in bringing about the
downfall of modern society, and in
fastening the birth of new era of civ
iliZation."
The governor is seriously perturbed
i'll his mind by these men, for, between
ourselves, really think it would
Crafty the Governor,
and not particularly displease the great
majority of thoughtful citizens, if con-
Tossing their guilt and humbly petition
ing for recognition of all the facts in
the case, certain members of this unholy